Tuesday, 5 January 2016

5 Ways To Completely Stop Svchost.exe (netsvcs) Process

Svchost.exe (Service Host or SvcHost) is a legitimate process on Windows which operates over several services for the proper functioning of operating system. As that name suggests it hosts or contains processes which are required by other applications such as Windows Defender antivirus uses a service that is hosted by a svchost.exe process. There can be multiple instances of this process running on your system. And each instance contain either one service or collection of services required by Windows.

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But sometime this process causes memory leak or high CPU usage. Even high data usage also occurs. Since last past week I was facing large amount of data usage of my MTS MBlaze. After going through task manager I came to know that this was due to svchost.exeprocess. While sometime it can be caused by a Windows Update, or by a full Event log file or by other programs or services that start many processes during their execution. So we've found some tricks and bundled them here to troubleshoot svchost.exe netsvcs process. There are 3 methods given below.

How To Fix/Solve Svchost.exe netsvcs Process

Method 1: - By Disabling Services Temporary

Open task manager, you can use shortcut key Ctrl+Alt+Del.

At Processes tab, check the Show processes from all users checkbox.

Now right-click on the high cpu usage svchost.exe process and select Go to Service(s).

Now you can notice all those process which are running under svchost.exe netsvcs.

Just start stopping services until CPU usage doesn't come to normal.

You can stop a service by right clicking on it and then select Stop Service.

If you don't want sequential stop then Google all the services and check whether they are malware or not.

Method 2: - Disable Services Permanently

Press Window key+R to open Run.

In the command box, type services.msc and hit enter.

Search for the service you want to stop and right-click on it. Then choose properties.